IA1.3: Discovery: History

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The intent of these changes is to test an alternative interaction to breadcrumbs. This interaction places them in a global place in the hierarchy, reduces avatar fatigue, and builds on affordance from browser histories/other platforms.

• Part of a larger project to improve our IA.
• Figma
• Merging behind a labs flag, on by default on develop to learn more from lived usage there.

Tasks

• Replace Explore icon with History icon
• Show room history on hover
  Show a list of recently viewed. Capped at 20. Scrollable. Show on hover. If clicked, click off to dismiss.
• Consider adding exploring a space as a history item
• Legacy housekeeping
  Remove the settings flag
  Remove magical behaviour of hiding when in <20 rooms